Driving excellence in humanities education

A More Perfect Union

History and Civics Materials for the nation's 250th Anniversary

Landmarks of American History & Culture

Resources for place-based teaching and research

Media Resource

Why Here?: Selma, Bloody Sunday, and the Long Civil Rights Movement
Teacher's Guide

Hispanic and Latino Heritage and History in the United States
Media Resource

Hispanic American Keywords for Chronicling America
Teacher's Guide

Spanish Language Learning Resources
Lesson Plan

A Spectrum of Perspectives: The Gilded Age and Progressive Era Through the Lens of the 1893 World’s Fair
Media Resource

Art and Remembrance: Using Art to Teach the Holocaust and Combat Hate

Civil Rights

and

Social Justice 

in U.S. History

 

Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming

Why Here?: Heart Mountain, Wyoming and Japanese Incarceration

Demonstrator outside the State Steamship Lines, circa May 1969

The LGBTQ Community in American History

Building A More Perfect Union cover

Building A More Perfect Union Lesson Book

This map appeared in the magazine Puck during the Empire State Campaign, a hard-fought referendum on a suffrage amendment to the New York State constitution.

Chronicling and Mapping the Women's Suffrage Movement

An Equal Rights Amendment demonstration proceeds down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the U.S. Capitol July 9, 1978.

U.S. Civil Rights Movements of the 20th Century

stereograph shows laborers and rocks at opening of tunnel

Citizenship, Race, and Place: Frontiers in Asian American History

Crowd of women holding "ERA yes" and "stop ERA" signs

The Amendments Project

Goddess of Liberty drives a chariot pulled by two white horses. She is followed by Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses Grant, each on a horse. On either side, white soldiers and Black civilians presumed to be formerly enslaved. Capitol Rotunda in background.

Afro Atlantic: Exploring Emancipation

Judy Richardson (center, holding notebook) with other SNCC staff workers

Grassroots Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement: Focus on Women

NEH Connections

NEH programs, projects, and resources for educators

Media Resource

"Fill Up the Jails": Creative Protest and the Virtual Martin Luther King Project
Media Resource

Adiós Amor: The Search for Maria Moreno